Big game season is a long way away. But I need to start making plans now.
I need to mount a long-gun to my xr650r for travel down fire roads and some open dirt trails.
Any ideas? Anyone find a solution?

I have a rack that bolts on the rear rack of my klr and seems like it would hold a gun sturdy. The previous owner used it to go trap shooting, I never have. I'll be home next Sunday and take some pictures. You can have it if it will work for you.

[QUOTE=1bigrn;21230238]Big game season is a long way away. But I need to start making plans now.
I need to mount a long-gun to my xr650r for travel down fire roads and some open dirt trails.
Any ideas? Anyone find a solution?

Depending on what you call a 'Long Gun' found the best option was to sling mine over the shoulder when chasing porkers in the black soil plains country in NSW
Main issue there was the bolt handle, to avoid discomfort it needed to be slung over the left shoulder.

Never managed to build/test them but have seen handlebar mounted bracketts used on quads.
Would need straps/bungees to hold the item in place, much better riding through scrub as it wont get snagged as easily.

Big game season is a long way away. But I need to start making plans now.
I need to mount a long-gun to my xr650r for travel down fire roads and some open dirt trails.
Any ideas? Anyone find a solution?

Actually nobody really uses T-stats here. It's normally pretty slow, technical riding. That picture is about the most wide open it gets. That being said a bike would likely benefit from one, but come summer you'd be wanting to take it out to help that little bit with coolant flow.

Not entirely sure if it was plugged vent lines, freezing air filter, or icing carb but there were times when the jetting would feel off. I know my sled had carb heaters I'd have to turn on in that 0 to -5 temp range and it would clear things up right away. This is my first few winter rides so I'll have to trouble shoot that next fall.

Winter riding in the right snow conditions is a blast though! So much fun! Better yet, clean gear, clean bike. Add gas and go ahead!

I'm looking to travel down 100k of fire roads at stupid speeds. Not an ideal solution.

Get a back pack that you can strap the gun in vertically. I'll post a picture tonight of my setup. That's is the safest way I have found. Most of my guns would never ride with me on a bike; they cost more than the bike.

Having the gun mounted to the bike is not an ideal solution in my opinion, there is no good way to do it that I know of.

Scabbard mounted to the forks? Would be a lot easier with USD forks, but would work with conventional forks if you built stand-off so the forks wouldn't crash into the scabbard on compression. I've thought about how I'd want to carry a gun on a bike and that's how I'd do it.

Big game season is a long way away. But I need to start making plans now.
I need to mount a long-gun to my xr650r for travel down fire roads and some open dirt trails.
Any ideas? Anyone find a solution?